Eugene austin



B. AUSTIN. OIL SEPARATOR (No Model.)

Patented Jan. 7, 1896.

Ni'rED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE AUSTIN, oE DETROIT, MioriieAn, nssienonro THE AUSTIN SEPARATORCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

QlL-SEPARATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,572, dated January'7, 1896.

Application filed September 24, 18941 Serial No. 523,859. (No model.)

To 00% whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE AUSTIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Detroit, county of IVayne, State of Michigan, have in venteda certain new and useful Improvement in Oil-Separators; and I declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itpertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in oilseparators for steam-pipes,and is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is avertical section. Fig. 2 is an elevation, partly in section. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the false bottom.

In-thc drawings, A is the case or shell, which I prefer to make ofboiler-iron, especially for the larger sizes.

B is the steam-inlet, and B the stea1n-outlet.

O is the upper headand C the lower head, the latter provided with adischarge-pipe c.

D is the false bottom, having the same dish as the heads. This falsebottom is perforated, as shown in Fig. 3.

E and E are depending walls inclined inward to meet at cl, forming thechamber F within. The depending wall E, which faces the inlet-pipe 13, Iprovide with perforations, preferably made in the form of slats andopenings like a window-blind. The slats e I prefor to make of sufficientwidth to extend outward beyond the plane of the wall.

G is a vertical drain-pipe from the chamber F through the false bottom Dinto the chamber H.

The operation of my device is as follows: The steam entering theinlet-pipe B impinges against the perforated wall E and the dead steamin the chamber F, and is deflected downward over the face of the falsebottom to the outlet, while the water of condensation and the oilcontained in the steam are in great part projected through theperforations in the wall E and deposited in the chamber F. The combinedwater and oil then pass through the drain-pipe G into the chamber H,from which they are drawn off through the drain-pipe c.

I am aware that a separator having a close pendent wall situated betweena steam inlet and outlet has been provided with a perforated or slottedwall situated in the inlet, the outlet also having a like perforatedwall, and I do not broadly claim devices of this character. Myimprovement provides within a suitable case or shell a close and aperforated wall or diaphragm, each extending across the main chamberinclosed in the shell and con nected to its walls at the sides and top,and connected also to each other at their lowest edges, all inamannertoinclose between them a space or dead-steam chamber adapted to hold abody of steam to act as a cushion to prevent the entrance of thesteam-current. The water and oil which are separated from the steam andthrown into this inner chamber by reason of their'greater momentumdescend to and through the pipe G to the space below the false bottom D,and are thereby kept from contact with the steam-current, the chamber F,pipe G and false bottom D co'operating to this end. The space below thefalse bottom 11) and between it and the water-level or between it andthe head 0 will in operation be filled with steam which though it willnot impede the downward passage of the water will practically co-operatewith the diaphragm or false bottom D to exclude the steam-current on itsway to the free exit B from contact'with the separated oil and water.

What I claim is- 1. In a device for separating liquids from steam a casehaving an unobstructed steam inlet and outlet, a chamber situatedbetween said inlet and outlet contained between a perforate andimperforate diaphragm, the former being on the steam inlet, and thelatter on the steam outlet side, and a pipe to convey liquid from saidchamber without contact with the steam current.

2. In a device for separating liquids from steam a case having anunobstructed steam inlet and outlet, a chamber situated between saidinlet and outlet contained between a per- In testimony whereof I signthis specifieaforate and imperforate diaphragm, the fortion in thepresence of two Witnesses. mer being on the steam inlet and the latter011 the steam outlet side, a pipe to convey liquid EUGENE AUSTIN. 5 fromsaid chamber Without contact with the Vitnesses:

steam current, a drain pipe G, and a perfo- O. H. FIsK,

rated false bottom D. E. H. JEWETT.

